Located near the Presidio Visitor Center, this location features Community Snapshots showcasing exploration and adventure, as well as Visual Story winner Marissa Leshnov.
COMMUNITY SNAPSHOTS
Visual Story
Marissa Leshnov
The Oakland OMies are a community of Black women who promote
wellness, mindfulness, and healing through yoga. They came
together shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic, and kept in
community with each other during the height of shelter-in-place
orders by meeting at parks throughout the Bay Area.
The parks therefore became both a backdrop for and catalyst to
expanding access to yoga at a time when the devastating impacts
of the pandemic and lack of accountability for police violence
created compounding traumas for Black people across the country.
The parks continue to be a place of refuge, where one’s sense of
community and sense of wonder may find renewal.
